In the western part of the Pacific Ocean, at 142 degrees east longitude and 12 degrees north latitude, is the famous ocean abyss, the deepest ocean in the world - the Mariana Trench.
At this moment, the "Marian" was sailing slowly at a speed of 15 knots. Shi Si had a lollipop in his mouth, frantically applying sunscreen on his body while staring at her large surveillance screen. "Ahem..." Suddenly the girl coughed desperately, as if she almost swallowed the lollipop in her mouth.
"Is Jun'er pregnant? I've told you countless times. I've never seen you eat sweets like this. Even if you don't gain weight, you still have cavities." Zhu Xin rubbed Shi Si's head lovingly, like a Nagging like a big sister.
"I'm choking..." Shi Si patted his underdeveloped chest, took the lollipop out of his mouth and shouted, "I was shocked just now. In addition to the endless schools of fish in the sea, There are also big guys coming and going, they are so big that a camera can’t fit in them, and I can’t even see what they are!”
"What?" Zhu Xin's face suddenly turned pale, because Ling Hao was still underwater at this moment. She picked up the communicator and started calling: "'Pipi Shrimp', this is the 'Tower', there are huge unknown objects underwater, please come up quickly!"
After a while, the "Pippi Shrimp" driven by Ling Hao and Tian Yong was pulled onto the deck by a crane. They opened the hatch and got out with speechless faces.
"What expressions are you two looking at? There is a huge thing down there, and you are in danger down there." Zhu Xin was like a primary school teacher educating two troublemakers with sincerity.
Ling Hao grinned and said with a silly smile: "Can we not see such a big target? This is close to the Mariana Islands. There is a US naval base called Guam over there. The one we just passed underwater The behemoth is a 'Virginia-class' attack nuclear submarine."
"Uh..." Zhuxin was embarrassed. She looked at Shi Si, who was holding a lollipop at the side. The latter shrugged innocently: "That's it. No wonder it's so big. I just stared at the camera screen and... I didn't turn on the radar, otherwise I would definitely be able to tell whether it was an animal or a warship." Anyway, as long as she doesn't feel embarrassed, the only one who will be embarrassed is others.
When it comes to emotional intelligence, it has to be Xueting. She raised her eyebrows and said, "Don't use your radar to randomly shine on American submarines, okay? That thing is more dangerous than a giant ocean beast. It's both a torpedo and a missile." ." He said and winked at Tian Yong. The latter originally wanted to refute, saying that it was impossible for US submarines to use force against civilian ships at will, but when he saw the look in Xueting's eyes, he immediately changed his mind and said with a smile: "That's right, let's come up, I've eaten all the fish below. It’s like medicine, it’s so weird, my intuition tells me it’s quite dangerous, really.”
While a group of people were chatting, Peter came over with a tablet computer and said with a rare serious face: "The situation of fish schools affects a large area. It has been reported in the news of many countries, starting from the Aleutians in the north. The islands' and 'Thousand Islands', via the 'Ogasawara Islands', to the Philippine Sea in the west, to the 'Palau Islands' in the north, and to the 'Marshall Islands' in the east, abnormal fish populations have been reported. Judging from the content of the reports , the direction of the movement of the fish schools is all towards the 'Mariana Trench', which is where it comes from."
Everyone had a look of astonishment on their faces: "What's going on? What could attract fish here? Could it be that the Americans are doing some crazy experiment here?"
Ling Hao pondered: "Since all the fish are rushing here, everything will be clear when they find their destination. Sisi, stop the boat and anchor near the small island next to it, and put your steamed grouper "Put the robot fish into the water and find out this matter."
"No need to check!" A female voice with a "smoking and alcoholic voice" sounded from the sea under the boat, followed by a "swishing" sound of water, and several figures jumped out of the sea and landed directly on the deck. In front of everyone.
"Water Spirit Star!" Ling Hao screamed. "Why are you here?" It was Shui Lingxing who landed on the deck. There were three mermaid girls behind her, who were looking at Ling Hao timidly.
Shui Lingxing gave Ling Hao a stern look: "You forgot about it even after a week? Didn't I say I'd be waiting for you here?"
Ling Hao said with a sly expression: "Of course I remember this, but didn't you say you were waiting for me in the waters of Saipan? Why did you come here?"
Shui Lingxing had an angry look on his face. He sat down on the cargo hatch cover on the side of the deck and said, "Isn't it just over a hundred sea miles away? All the sea people in this sea are going there like pilgrims." Come here, why don’t I bring my sisters over to have a look? We have already dived to a depth of two thousand meters just now. It doesn’t matter that I am a spirit body, but the sisters can’t stand the water pressure. The same is true for the aquariums, like a trench It seems like something is attracting them in the depths. Due to water pressure issues, different types of aquatic animals are blocked at different depths and cannot continue to dive, but they are unwilling to leave. They linger there and gather more and more. , the scene was so spectacular. We saw the Marianne when we surfaced. You didn't go to Saipan to pick me up, but you were still hanging around here. You really don't take me seriously, do you?"
"Aren't we heading all the way to Saipan? However, the fish underwater are so weird that we can't pretend we can't see them, so we're going to investigate by the way." Shi Si came over to Ling Hao with a cute expression and blinking big eyes. Solved.
Shui Lingxing took a deep breath, her face looked better, and she seemed to have lost a lot of her anger. Then she pointed to the three timid mermaid girls around her and introduced to Ling Hao: "This is a cousin from my family. , called Shui Lingkui, these two are the two little princesses of the Deep Sea Family, Hai Dongdong's sisters, Hai Ningning and Hai Youyou." The three mermaid girls seemed a little shy and did not speak, but put their hands on their shoulders and bowed slightly He stood up and made a mermaid salute, but his big watery eyes never left Ling Hao for a moment, looking at the latter curiously. Although Ling Hao knew that they were probably old enough to be his great-grandmother, they looked and felt exactly like a fifteen or sixteen year old girl.
"Guess, what happened to me on Saipan?" Shui Lingxing looked at Ling Hao meaningfully and asked. The latter asked in confusion, and then she said in a deep voice: "There is a huge luxury cruise ship parked on the high seas outside Saipan, and its name is 'Ryuusei Maru'. You and your detective girlfriend should be familiar with the name of this ship, right?" ?”
"Of course I'm familiar with it. This is the Seventh Whale Shark in the 'Octopus' organization, which is also the largest gambling boat under the name of Ishikawa Akihiro." Zhu Xin's face became solemn, and his eyes changed as he looked at Shui Lingxing. Gotta be a little bit sharp. "This information is top secret even within Interpol. How did you know it?"
Shui Lingxing did not meet Zhu Xin's slightly cold gaze, but raised the corners of her mouth slightly, revealing a joking smile and said: "Miss Cheng is so forgetful. I used to stay in Ling Hao's body. He saw What information is there? Will it be different from what I read? This little devil is elusive. He is always active on the high seas and rarely sets foot on land. It is more difficult to catch him than to reach the sky. Don't you want to take some action? "
Zhuxin sneered and shook his head: "Take action? What action? Gambling is a legal business in many countries, and the gambling ship is on the high seas and does not violate the laws of any country. Why should I arrest him? Besides, 'whale shark' He owns dozens of gambling boats, and there is a high probability that he is not on this boat. If we take action rashly against this gambling boat and don’t catch anyone, I’m afraid it’s us who will go to jail.”
"Yes, 'Whale Shark' is so confident that even his name is an open secret. His gambling boats are registered in countries that include gambling as a legal business, and the boats are on the high seas. Moreover, this person is always cautious and does not allow Anyone who possesses illegal drugs and other illegal items on his gambling boat, and does not allow his subordinates to engage in illegal activities, in a sense, he cannot even be considered a criminal."
Shui Lingxing rolled her eyes at Ling Hao and said, "Do you really believe in the information that was collected at some point? Why don't you use your own eyes to verify whether the words on the pieces of paper and in the computer are true? Even if this person has been If he is not a criminal, can he not be one now? Don’t forget, after all, he is a member of the ‘Octopus’ organization and hangs out with a group of heinous criminals. How can he be a clean person? Although I don’t know this The 'Whale Shark' is not on that ship, but what I can confirm is that this so-called gambling ship must be a real devil's cave. Even if I am on the sea a few hundred meters away from the ship, I can hear the sound coming from it. The woman screamed. Also, several of us have seen with our own eyes that a dozen sacks containing the woman’s fragmented body and iron pieces were thrown into the sea from the ship. Putting it together, there were at least eight dead people.”
Ling Hao and Zhu Xin took a breath at the same time, widened their eyes and asked, "Are you serious?"
"Believe it or not!" Yanjiu said with a unique and arrogant voice.
"If that's the case, then I won't let him go." Zhu Xin and Ling Hao looked at each other, and the latter asked Shi Si to sail to Saipan. However, when the anchor chain was halfway pulled, it seemed to be stuck in the rock, and could no longer rise an inch. The winch motor roared overwhelmed, sparks flew everywhere, and it was about to be burned.
"Abandon the anchor!" Ling Hao is the highest officer of the "Marian", and only he has the authority to issue such an order as "Abandon the anchor." The explosive bolt instantly broke the connection between the anchor chain and the winch, the winch motor stopped working, and an anchor chain more than a hundred meters long slipped into the sea and disappeared like a noodle below.
In the navigation world, anchor abandonment is considered a serious accident. The "Marian" has a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, the main anchor weighs 4 tons, and the anchor chain is more than 300 meters long. Although it is divided into many pieces, there is no It was all used, but the water depth of the anchorage this time was about 50 meters, and the anchor chain was used for nearly 150 meters. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were just thrown into the water. Fortunately, the "Marian" has a main anchor on both sides of the ship's side and a stern anchor at the stern, which will not affect its ability to stop the ship again, otherwise they will be in big trouble.
"What's going on down there?" Ling Hao looked angry. Losing an anchor only happened to a rookie captain.
Seeing Ling Hao's anger, Peter quickly comforted him: "Don't worry, there is something on the seabed, and detection alone may not be accurate. The anchor hangs on the bottom and cannot be retrieved. This kind of thing may happen even in a very busy anchorage. It’s nothing new, it’s just bad luck, don’t take it too seriously.”
"No, the anchor chain was pulled up more than half just now, and then it suddenly sank, and then it couldn't be pulled up anymore. Don't you feel something?" Ling Hao's face became even more ugly, and he shouted to Shi Si Said: "Think! Have you lowered your 'Steamed Grouper'? There must be something under our ship!"
Shi Si held his notebook and howled: "I put it down as soon as the boat stopped. Don't rush me. The camera's field of view is completely occupied by fish. There are naturally too many things, but these fish are impossible. Pull away our anchor!"
Hearing this, Pete slapped his head and shouted: "I know this feeling. The feeling of losing the anchor is exactly the same as catching a big fish and having the fishing line cut off!" Then, there was a moment of excitement on his face. It turned into shock, and then became a look of deep horror. "It's just...it's just that this fishhook weighs 4 tons, plus the thigh-thick anchor chain, how big a fish must be caught? Even blue whales are not that powerful, right?!"
"I see it!" Shi Si yelled at the top of her lungs, and everyone gathered in front of her screen.
As the "Steamed Grouper" continued to dive, suddenly, as if the clouds were clearing and the sun appeared, the school of fish became sparse, and then completely disappeared from the field of vision. What appeared on the screen were several incredibly huge figures. Their backs are dark and almost rhombus-shaped. They are flapping two huge wings like the wings of a large passenger plane, and their long tails are trailing behind them like a long needle. These monsters are so huge. Although there may be some errors when observing with the "Qingsheng Grouper" camera, it is estimated that their wingspan is at least 40 meters, and their body length is at least 40 meters not counting the tail, which is longer than the average The blue whale is much larger. Although the difference in body length between the two is not too big, five blue whales are not as wide as others when placed side by side. There is no doubt about the hugeness of this monster, because there is also a good reference point, that is, the anchor of the "Marian" is hanging on the upper lip of one of the monsters. It looks like the proportion of a fishhook on the mouth of a fish. almost. This scene made the whole deck audible for a moment, and everyone's mouths were opened wide in shock and they were speechless.
After a long time, I heard Pete stammering: "Nah... Nah, this is a manta ray. How can there be such a big manta ray? Am I not having a nightmare?"
At this time, Shui Lingxing's cigarette-smoking voice spoke calmly: "That's something you don't see very often! This is the 'Mariana Manta Ray', a species endemic to the 'Mariana Trench'. The intelligence is not too high, probably not too high." It’s equivalent to the intelligence level of a human being of eight or nine years old. You don’t need to be afraid at all. These animals are very docile and not aggressive. As long as you don’t run into their mouths, there won’t be any danger. But there is one strange thing. This kind of animal has always lived alone. It's not the mating season now. Why do they appear in groups here? To be honest, there must be something weird at the bottom of the sea. Ling Hao, why don't we go to the bottom of the trench to see what's there? Are you causing trouble?"
